Useful Contacts and Phone Numbers for Nurses

Some time we need a contact details of director or secretary for government, that time where we will get those details, this is the place you have to go for all the tamilnadu government department contacts, the web address is http://www.tn.gov.in/telephone/default.htmlbut

 we dont need all of them here is some filtered and brewed contacs for all the Tamilnadu Nurses,
Health Minister
Office:044 – 25670682

HEALTH SECRETARY
Health and Family Welfare Department,
Secretariat,
Fort St. George
Chennai,
600 009
FAX: 044 – 25671253

Principal Secretary: 044 – 25671875 -5671
Ex-officio Spl. Secy: 044 – 25675459
Addl. Secretary: 044 – 24790283

FINANCE DEPARTMENT
Secretariat,
Fort St. George
Chennai
600 009

Principal Secretary: 044 – 25671173
Addl.Secretary: 044 – 25677547
Spl. Secretary: 044 – 25677560
FAX (Ways and Means) . 044 – 25671825 .

DME:
DIRECTORATE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION
162, EVR Periyar Salai,
Kilpauk,
Chennai
600 010

Director:044 – 28364502,Extension :234
FA & CAO :044 – 28364503 Extension :205
FAX 044 – 28364500

SELECTION COMMITTEE
162, EVR Periyar Salai,
Kilpauk,
Chennai 600 010

Secretary : 044 – 28364822 Extension :220

DMS:
Medical and Rural Health Services
DMS Complex (3rd Floor)
359, Anna Salai,
Teynampet,
Chennai 600 006
Director: 044 – 24343271,
 044 – 24364755 Extenxion: 200
FAX 044 – 24343271

 DPH:
Directorate of Public Health and Preventive Medicine
359, Anna Salai,
DMS Complex,(1st Floor)
Teynampet,
Chennai 600 006
Director : 044 – 24320802 Extension:203
FAX 044 – 24323942

Tamil Nadu Information Commission
No.2, Sir Theagarayar Salai,
Near Aalai Amman Koil,
Teynampet,
Chennai - 600 018

Phone: 044 - 243128 to 044 – 24312848
FAX  044 – 24357580

Directorate of Drugs Control
359, Anna Salai,
DMS Complex,
Teynampet,
Chennai 600 006

FAX . 044 – 24321830

Board of Examination in General Nursing and Midwifery
Dean Controller of Nursing Examns,
Government General Hospital
Chennai
600 003

Dean: 044 – 25305111  .044 – 28192498
FAX   044 – 25305115

Pay and Accounts Office (Sectt)
Secretariat,
Fort St. George
Chennai
600 009

PAO: 044 – 25670182 Extension:5432

Tamil Nadu Nurses & Midwives Council,
Jayaprakash Narayanan Maligai,
Old No.140, New No.56,
Santhome High Road,
(Near Santhome Church),
Mylapore,
Chennai- 600 004.
Phone:044 – 24934792
FAX044 – 24620547
E-mail : info@tamilnadunursingcouncil.com

Indian Nursing Council
Combined Councils Building
Kotla Road,
Temple lane
Opp.Mata Sundri College
Near I.T.O.,
New Delhi – 110002
phone: 011 – 23235619,011 - 23235570 ,011 - 23220075, 011 – 23220076,
Fax: 011 – 23236140

The Trained Nurses' Association of India
Head Quarter
Florence Nightingale Lane
L-17, Green Park (Main)
New Delhi -
110016

Phone: 011-2656 6665
Fax :011-2685 8304.
Email: tnai_2003@yahoo.com

KMC meeting

At Kilpauk Medical College(KMC) Tamilnadu Government Nurses Association (TGNA) conducted a emergency meeting

Overview of KMC Meeting:

• All state branch secretaries paid the state TGNA yearly subscriptions

• And the state TGNA secratery noted that all the branch secratery should collect the yearly subscription without fail

• She said government approved for three new psting creation

1. First is 143 new Nursing Superintendent Grade 1 posting

2. 25% (approx. 4000)of new Nursing Superintendent Grade 2 posting

3. 2000 New contract basis posting

Some of the branch secretary said that the office is not giving new salary

State TGNA president said we got official letters form Directorates (DME, DMS)and she issued those letters and some related Government Orders

Contract Basis Nurses Meeting:

About 100 of Contract Basis Nurses met TGNA state secretary and requested for new regular posting

She said we will get the new time scale of pay absorption soon and our Association will work for it without fail
Trained Nurses Meeting:

More than 1000 of trained nurses met TGNA secretary and requested for new Contract Basis nurses posting

The state TGNA secretary said the old story about how they won the court case against private

And she said we will work for the new posting if something fails we should encourage the state secretary for higher appeal and not to degrade them in any manner

Illustration:

If the 25% of new Nursing Superintendent Grade -2 posting going to take place then the regular post will be similarly will start

Rumor:

About 500 new contract to regular post will be going to place before April

November Nurses News

Tiruvarur meeting:

Tamilnadu Government Nurses Association (TGNA) conducted a meeting at Tiruvarur in that meeting the TGNA state secretary explained why the governments refusing to give 10610 salaries as raise for grade pay

She also noted that we will ask the government about this salary raise and we will get it

And some other problem rose regarding association election, the state TGNA secretary explained about the fund and the time,

She said “we need to get lot of government orders from Government and the Tamilnadu state election will take place soon before that we got some jobs to do so the election will not be conducted until next Central executive meeting”

Regular Posting:

400 number of contract basis nurses have been absorbed into time scale of pay

Contract Basis Nurses Posting:

The Tamilnadu state health secretary announced at the world cancer day at government general hospital and the government going to post about 2000 contract basis nurses for cancer prevention and management scheme

Nursing Superintendent Grade -1 Counseling

About 20 numbers Nursing Superintendent Grade - 2 have been promoted to Nursing Superintendent Grade – 1,

Nurses New Salary GO in Tamilnadu Government

After all the Strike, Rally gone Tamilnadu Government decided to hike Government Nurses salary

The Tamilnadu Chief Minister annouced the new salary and the grade pay for the nurse

here is the go copy

and here you can download or print it

Myths and Truths about MRI Scan

There are lot of myths about MRI Scan. Here is a video about that



Thanks to Nursinglink.com

Rule 4,5, The Fundamental Rules of Tamilnadu Government.

3. Unless in any case it be otherwise distinctly provided by or under the rules, these rules do not apply to Government servants whose conditions of service are governed by Army or Marine Regulations. 4. Deleted. 5. Deleted. 5-A. The Government may relax the provisions of rules or orders in such manner as may appear to them to be just and equitable provided that where any such rule or order is applicable to the case of any person or class of persons, the case shall not be dealt with in any manner less favourable to him or them than that provided by that rule or order. RULING: Fundamental Rule 5-A applies only to relaxations in individual cases. General exemptions from the natural operation of rules can be made only by amendment of the rules by competent authority.

Rule 2 The Fundamental Rules Of Tamilnadu Government

The Fundamental Rules apply, subject to the provisions of Rule 3, to all Government servants paid from the Consolidated Fund of the State and to any other class of Government servants to which Government may by general or special order declare them to be applicable. The Government may, in relation to service, under their administrative control, other than All-India Services, make rules modifying or replacing any of the Fundamental Rules Proviso deleted (G.O.Ms.No.90 P&AR (FR.IV) dt. 5.7.2003 - w.e.f. 19.3.2003). Note 1.—A Government servant who is paid from the Consolidated Fund of the State and who is temporarily transferred to any of the Defence Services shall remain subject to these Fundamental Rules. Note-2.—The Service Rules shall be taken to embody and indicate fully all the provisions governing the services concerned. As laid down in the Service Rules the Fundamental Rules shall govern a service, only in the matter of leave, leave salary, pension and other such conditions of service, as have not been provided for in the Service Rules. If any provision of the Fundamental Rules is repugnant to any provisions of the Service Rules, then the provisions of the Service Rules shall prevail and the provisions of the Fundamental Rules shall, to the extent of the repugnancy, be void. RULINGS. (1) In cases where the Tamil Nadu Government merely record the orders of Government of India regarding Fundamental Rules, it may be assumed theat the instructions issued by the Government of India will apply to Government servants under the rule-making control of Tamil Nadu Government. (2) The personnel allotted from the former Travancore-Cochin State to the Tamil Nadu State shall be governed by the Fundamental Rules of the Tamil Nadu Government subject to the protection given by the proviso to Section 115 of the State Reorganisation Act, 1956 (Central Act 37 of 1956) in supersession of the corresponding rules, if any applicable to them. (G.O.Ms. No.1157, Finance, dated 22nd October 1960.) REFERENCE: (5-A) Consolidated Fund means the Consolidated Fund of the State of Tamil Nadu  Definitions: Article 266 (i) of the Constitution of India Consolidated Funds and public accounts of India and of the States (1) Subject to the provisions of Article 267 and to the provisions of this Chapter with respect to the assignment of the whole or part of the net proceeds of certain taxes and duties to States, all revenues received by the Government of India, all loans raised by that Government by the issue of treasury bills, loans or ways and means advances and all moneys received by that Government in repayment of loans shall form one consolidated fund to be entitled the Consolidated Fund of India, and all revenues received by the Government of a State, all loans raised by that Government by the issue of treasury bills, loans or ways and means advances and all moneys received by that Government in repayment of loans shall form one consolidated fund to be entitled the Consolidated Fund of the State (2) All other public moneys received by or on behalf of the Government of India or the Government of a State shall be entitled to the public account of India or the public account of the State, as the case may be (3) No moneys out of the Consolidated Fund of India or the Consolidated Fund of a State shall be appropriated except in accordance with law and for the purposes and in the manner provided in this Constitution

Rule 1The Fundamental Rules Of Tamilnadu Government

RULE:1 These rules may be called the Fundamental Rules. They shall come into force with effect from the 1st January 1922. RULING: The President of the Republic of India and the State Government may, by general or special orders, permit deviations from any provisions of a purely procedural nature contained in any rules made or confirmed under Article 309 of the Constitution of India provided that such deviations shall not affect the conditions of service, the pay and allowances or the pensions of officers subject to the rule-making control of the President of the Republic of India. REFERENCE: Article 309  The Constitution Of India 1949 Recruitment and conditions of service of persons serving the Union or a State Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, Acts of the appropriate Legislature may regulate the recruitment, and conditions of service of persons appointed, to public services and posts in connection with the affairs of the Union or of any State: Provided that it shall be competent for the President or such person as he may direct in the case of services and posts in connection with the affairs of the Union, and for the Governor of a State or such person as he may direct in the case of services and posts in connection with the affairs of the State, to make rules regulating the recruitment, and the conditions of service of persons appointed, to such services and posts until provision in that behalf is made by or under an Act of the appropriate Legislature under this article, and any rules so made shall have effect subject to the provisions of any such Act

NURSING IN INDIA

The ancient records of India indicate the principles and practices of nursing. They are so clear, intelligent and scientific, that many of them might fit into any of the modern textbook. The nurses were usually young men, and only in special cases, women were taken for conducting childbirth. The progress of nursing in India was obstructed by the low state of women, the caste system, illiteracy and political unrest. Military nursing was the earliest type of nursing. In 1664 the East India Company started a hospital for soldiers in a house at Fort St.George, Madras. The first sisters were sent from St.Thomas Hospital, London to this military hospital. In 1797 a Lying - in -Hospital (maternity) for the poor of Madras was built with the helpof subscriptions by Dr.John Underwood. In 1854 the Government sanctioned a training school for midwives in Madras. Florence Nightingale was the first woman to have great influence over nursing in India and had a close knowledge of Indian conditions, especially army. She was interested in the nursing service for the civilian population, though her first interest was the welfare of the army in India. In 1865, Miss Florence Nightingale drew up some detailed "Suggestions on a system of nursing for hospitals in India". Graduates were sent out from the Nightingale School of Nurses at St.Thomas Hospital, England to start similar schools in our country. St Stephens Hospital at Delhi was the first one to begin training the Indian girls as nurses in 1867. In 1871, the first School of Nursing was started in Government General Hospital, Madras with 6 months Diploma Midwives program with four mid-wife students. Four lady Superintendents and four trained nurses from England were posted to Madras. Between 1890 and 1900, many schools, under either missions or government, were started in various parts of India. In the yearly twentieth century, National Nursing Associations were started. In 1897, Dr.B.C.Roy did great work in raising the standards of nursing and that of male and female nurses. In 1908, the trained nurses association of India was formed as it was felt to uphold the dignity and the honour of nursing profession. In 1918, training schools were started for health visitors and dais, at Delhi and Karachi. Two English nurses Miss Griffin and Miss Graham were appointed to give training to and to supervise the nurses. In 1926, Madras State formed the first registration council to provide basic standards in education and training. The first four year basic Bachelor Degree program were established in 1946 at the college of nursing in Delhi and Vellore. With the assistance from the Rockfeller Foundations, seven health centers were set up between 1931 - 1939 in the cities of Delhi, Madras, Bangalore, Lucknow, Trivandrum, Pune and Calcutta. In 1947, after the independence, the community development programme and the expansion of hospital service created a large demand for nurses, auxiliary nurse midwives, health visitors, midwives, nursing tutors and nursing administrators. The Indian Nursing Council was passed by our ordinance on December 31st 1947. The council was constituted in 1949. In 1956, Miss Adrenwala was appointed as the Nursing Advisor to Government of India. The development of Nursing in India was greatly influenced by the Christian missionaries, World War, British rule and by the International agencies such as W.H.O. UNICEF, Red Cross, UNSAID etc. The first master’s degree course, a two-year postgraduate program was begun in 1960 at the College of Nursing, Delhi. In 1963, the School of Nursing in Trivandrum, instituted the first two years post certificate Bachelor Degree program. The associations such as International Council of Nurses, the nurses auxiliary of the CMA of India, T.N.A.I. Indian Nursing council and State level Registration Council are closely connected with promotion and the upliftment of the nursing profession.

IMMUNIZATION SCHEDULE

AGE	VACCINATION	ROUTE
At Birth or with in 15 day	BCG Oral Polio	Intra Dermal Oral
6th Week	DPT Hepatitis-B Oral Polio	Intra Muscular Intra Muscular Oral
10th Week	DPT Hepatitis-B Oral Polio	Intra Muscular Intra Muscular Oral
14th Week	DPT Hepatitis-B Oral Polio	Intra Muscular Intra Muscular Oral
9th Month (after completion of 270 days)	Measles	SubCutaneous
16 – 24 Months	DPT-Booster Oral Polio	Intra Muscular Oral
5th year	DT	Intra Muscular
10 years	TT	Intra Muscular
16 years	TT	Intra Muscular
Pregnant Mothers 2 Doses With One Month Interval	TT	Intra Muscular

Nursing Identification

This is a policy of Trained Nurses Association of India.

Nursing has its own identity as a health profession, hence, due recognition needs to be given to the role and contribution of Nursing personnel to health care services in the hospital and the community.

Nursing identity should be reflected in all planning papers, documents, and policy statements of government and non-government organisations with a view to strengthening development of Nursing, otherwise, this sector of the health system gets neglected and status of the Nursing service gets further diminished.

Nursing should not be designated as "paramedical", nor should its identity be lost under the term "health workers".

Nursing is supported by auxiliaries. The term "Nursing personnel" can be used to collectively designate a wide variety of workers of the Nursing team, both professionals and Nursing auxiliaries.

Thanks to:
Trained Nurses Association of India

Yet to reach goal of health for all: President

Good health parameters of a society are an absolute necessity for the economic progress of a nation,” said President Pratibha Patil at the inauguration of the SevenHills Hospital, in Andheri on Sunday.

“We are yet to reach our goal of health for all. Access to and affordability of healthcare, especially for the underprivileged and marginalised sections of society, in particular women and children, remain under-accomplished tasks,” she added.

She urged medical institutions to reach out to the rural areas by holding medical camps with mobile medical units.
The President laid special emphasis on the use of tele-medicine (technology in medicine) to combat the increase in lifestyle diseases.

Talking about the threat perception by 'lifestyle diseases', President  said as per the World Health Organisation, there would be 80 million diabetes patients in the country by 2030, while as per the Cardiological Society of India, there would be a 100 million heart cardiac patients — 60 per cent of the total cardiac patients in the world — in India by 2020.

“WHO has cautioned that India would be diabetes capital of the world,” she added.

Thanks
Hindustan Times

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF NURSING STAFF

General Care of the Patient
1. Admission of patient.
2. Personal care – including bathing, mouth care, hair combing and shampoo.
3. Treatment of pediculosis.
4. Care of hands, feet, nails.
5. Care of pressure points.
6. Giving and removal of bed pans and urinals.
7. Application of hot water bottles and ice caps.
8. Feeding of patients.

Technical Nursing Care
1. Taking and recording of temperature, pulse and respiration.
2. Administration of medicines and injections.
3. Elevate
4. Catheterisation
5. Dressing
6. Irrigations
7. Oxygen Therapy
8. Pre and post-operative care
9. Preparation of patient care for discharge
10. Last offices of the dead

Ancillary and Clerical
1. Assistance and instructions to patients and relatives.
2. Care of patients clothing and valuables.
3. Bed making with or without patient.
4. Maintenance of nominal register.
5. Preparation of invalid diets.
6. Distribution of diets.
7. Recording of drugs administered.
8. Indenting and accounting for drugs, maintenance of sub store, indent for
surgical supplies, stores, diet, urine collection, treatment testing, reporting,
collecting, labelling and dispatching of specimen.
9. Preparation for and assistance in chemical tests, medical procedures and
intravenous infusions, assisting the medical officer with various examinations
of patients and treatment.

Administrative and Supervisory
1. Handling and taking over charge of shift.
2. Linen furniture and equipment up keep, repairs and replacement.
3. Maintenance of stock registers and inventories.
4. Custody of dangerous drugs.
5. Guidance and supervision of nursing students and domestic staff.
6. Assistance in orientation of new nurses.
7. Maintenance of bed side report.
8. Maintaining a 12 hourly report on patients.
9. Escorting patients to and fro departments .
10. Writing the prescriptions and Medical Officer's instructions in the instruction
book writing of.
11. Writing of diets in the diet book.

Cleanliness
1. Maintaining  a Clean unit.
2. Setting up of  clean dressing trolley.
3. Maintaining Clean cupboards, rubber articles, metal, glass and other types of apparatus and equipment.
4. Cleaning up of unit and equipment after a procedure.
5. Arranging for the washing of soiled linen.
6. Disinfection.

As per
RULES FRAMED BY THE GOVERNOR-IN-COUNCIL
UNDER SECTION 11 OF THE MADRAS NURSES AND MIDWIVES ACT
(MADRAS ACT III OF 1926)

NOTIFICATION
G.O.No.324 P.H., dated 11 February 1926, as amended by
(1) G.O. No. 348, P.H.nd dated 2nd March 1931,
(3) G.O. No. 732, P.H. dated 31st

Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s Quote Regarding Nurses

"A nurse is not merely an aid and assistant to a doctor, she has an independent part to play in many areas where a doctor need not necessarily be present. In the western world, a nurse anaesthetist is properly trained, takes on important duties in minor surgical procedures and also takes care of newborns, among others. The nurse is in her own right a key member of the medical team”

Available Facilities In PHC

Basic Emergency Obstetric & Newborn Care Services(BEmONC) in 385 PHCS

Normal deliveries
Manual Vacuum Aspiration (MVA) for safe abortion & tubectomy
ISM clinic for A/N care – Dadimathi Girtham and Danwanthra
thailam after counseling
Stabilization of obstetric and newborn emergencies
Essential newborn care esp LBW and premature babies 

 NGO run Emergency Transport services 
29 control rooms for controlling the ambulances provided under TNHSP
TNHSP provide 187 vehicles for 187 blocks during first phase
Fully equipped ambulances would be handed over to NGO 

JANANI SURAKSHA YOJANA SCHEME 
Below Poverty Line (BPL) pregnant women are given Rs. 700 as financial assistance for first 2 deliveries to facilitate institutional deliveries.
Rs.8.91 crores have been dispersed (51,085 beneficiaries)
GOI released Rs.14.50 crores as 2^nd Installment 

Mainstreaming Indian Systems of Medicine 
50 ISM drugs are being supplied to all the 8683 Health Sub Centres
ISM drugs are manufactured by Tamil Nadu medicinal plants Corporation
Training the health functionaries on the use of ISM drugs is under progress.
Total value of the ISM drugs - Rs.30 crs
Training cost – Rs. 3.03 Crs
Beneficiaries - 8.6 lakhs - steadily increasing

Health for All

• Thus the Department of Medical Services which was a huge composite Department at the time of inception has decade by decade paved way for organisation of various separate Departments for better administration and from 1.1.99 onwards, this Department namely the Department of Medical and Rural Health Services is being entrusted with the responsibility of rendering Medical Care services to the public through the Non-Teaching Medical Institutions.
• Through the pursuit of various policies and Programmes, the Department is aiming to translate the Alma Alta Declaration of

        Health for All in to reality.

• The reduction in Infant Mortality Rate, Maternal Mortality Rate, Crude Death Rate and Crude Birth Rate come through the services of the Medical Institutions under the Control of this Department.
• Department Functioning:
• The Department of Medical and Rural Health Services is rendering Medical Services through the grid of 25 District Head Quarters Hospitals, 162 Taluk Hospitals, 79 Non Taluk Hospitals, 12 Dispensaries and 11 Mobile Medical Units, besides 23 District T.B. Centres, 5 T.B. Hospitals and 2 TB Clinics and 1 Leprosy Hospital are under the control of this Department.

Personnels under the D.M.E. control

MEDICAL OFFICERS: 

         1.        Reader /Professors: 863 

        2.        Lecturer / Registrars : 169 

        3.        Tutor/Asst.Surgeons : 2379

NURSING PERSONNEL:

1.        Principal: 1

2.        Reader in Nursing: 9

3.        Lecturer in Nursing: 10

4.        Assistant Lecturer: 7

5.        Nursing Tutor Grade I: 16

6.        Nursing Tutor Grade II: 72

7.        Nursing Superintendent Grade I: 20

8.        Nursing Superintendent Grade II: 56

9.        Nursing Superintendent Grade III: 360

10.     Nurses: 3486

11.     Nurses on Contract basis: 528

12.     Social Worker: 32

13.     Health Visitor: 63

14.     Maternity Assistant: 34

15.     A.N.M: 44

Directorate of Medical Education

The Directorate of Medical Education was bifurcated in the year 1966 from the Directorate of Medical Services. It is functioning as a separate Directorate for the last 36 years. It is controlling Medical Colleges and attached teaching hospitals.

Director of Medical Education:

Dr.C.Ravindranath M.B.B.S., D.Ortho D.I.P(Phy.Med.) DNB(PMR)

Directorate of Medical Education is entrusted with the responsibility of implementing teaching, training and research programmes in the medical field and patient care services.

The Director of Medical Education is the  Head of the Department and he is assisted at the State headquarters by the following personnel. 

1. Addl.Director of Medical Education ( Medical )

2. Addl.Director of Medical Education & Secretary, Selection Committee.

3. Joint Director of Medical Education ( Selection Committee)

4. Joint Director of Medical Education ( Pharmacy )

5. Deputy Director of Medical Education ( Admn)

6. Deputy Director of Medical Education ( P & D)

6. Deputy Director of Medical Education ( A & R)

7. Deputy Director of Medical Education ( H & D)

8. Deputy Director of Medical Education ( PG)

9. Deputy Director of Medical Education (UG)

10. Deputy Director of Medical Education (Nursing)

11. Deputy Director of Medical Education (Statistics)

12.  Law Officer

13.  Financial Advisor & Chief Accounts Officer

14.  Administrative Officer (Manager)

15.  Administrative Officers for various subjects

Functions of D.M.E

• The Functions of the Director of Medical Education is two fold. 
• One is Education in Medical /  Dental / Para Medical sciences and the other one is clinical care in the teaching hospitals administered by him.  
• Besides, the Director is also empowered to regulate the functions of private self financing Medical / Dental / Para Medical Colleges.
• Conduct of Entrance Examination for selection of candidates for Post-Graduate Courses in Medical Sciences is done through Selection Committee appointed by the Government under his chairmanship. 
• The selection of the candidates for Postgraduate Courses is in accordance with the policy of the Govt. announced every year in March.
• Selection Committee under his chairmanship processes the applications seeking admission to I year MBBS / BDS / B.Sc (Nursing) / BPT / BOT courses and selects candidates in accordance with the policy of the Govt. announced every year.  
• In addition selection and allotment of candidates against the free seats and payment seats in private self financing Medical / Dental /  Para Medical colleges in accordance with the rules / Court Orders.
• Out of 60 seats available in Perundurai Medical College run by the Road Transport of Govt. Selection Committee allots 40 candidates while  the remaining seats are filled up by the management with the wards of the Transport Corporation employees.
• At present 11 Govt. Medical Colleges, 2 private Medical Colleges, 1 Govt. Dental College and 7 Private Dental Colleges are functions in the State under the Director of Medical Education. In addition Institute of Road Transport of the Govt. Transport Department is also running a Medical College at Perundurai.
• Forty hospitals are under the control of this Directorate. Every year, more than a thousand  medical graduates and more the nine hundred medical postgraduates, diploma and higher specialties graduates come out from the Govt. Medical Institutions after completing the courses

Directorate of Medical and Rural Health Services

• The object of hospital services organised in India during the early years of British rule was to cater mainly to the needs of the British army and the British Civilian populationIndian Medical Department was organised on a regular basis in 1786.

• In the year 1875 a Medical Rule was set up and Department of Sanitation and Vaccination was brought under the Control of Medical Department.
• The Medical Department was then Headed by Surgeon General. In 1919 the post of Director of Public Health has been created and the department has been bifurcated.
• In 1922 Public Health and Medical Services were separated at all levels.
• The Public Health Department was formed in the year 1923 for the prevention and control of communicable diseases and for the improvement of General Health Conditions in the State.
• After the year 1947 the post of Surgeon General who was fully in charge of Indian Medical Department was redesignated as Director of Medical Services for Madras State.
• The ESI Scheme was framed in according with the provision of the ESI act 1948 and was first inaugurated in Tamil Nadu in 1955
• In 1956 Family Welfare Programme was taken up by this Department to promote the Health of the People particularly Mothers and Children.
• In 1966 a new department was created to attend Medical Education.
• In the Year 1970 the Directorate of Indian Medicine was formed which was under the control of Director of Medical Services.
• During 1982 the Drug Control Administration has become an independent Department.
• During 1983 the Directorate of Family Welfare was disintegrated from the Directorate of Medical Services and Family Welfare for better co-ordination and implementation of Family Welfare Programme
• In the year 1999 the Directorate of Medical Services was bifurcated and a separate Directorate to look after the implementation of the ESI Scheme was formed on 1.1.1999.